El Temür (;
Mongolian:; died 1333) was an ethnic
Kipchak official of the
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty ( ; zh, c=元朝, p=Yuáncháo), officially the Great Yuan (; Mongolian language, Mongolian: , , literally 'Great Yuan State'), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after Div ...
. He was behind the coup d'état that installed
Tugh Temür (Emperor Wenzong) as Yuan emperor in the capital
Khanbaliq
Khanbaliq (; , ''Qaɣan balɣasu'') or Dadu of Yuan (; , ''Dayidu'') was the Historical capitals of China, winter capital of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty in what is now Beijing, the capital of China today. It was located at the center of modern ...
in 1328. The restorationists at Khanbaliq won the
War of the Two Capitals under the leadership of Tugh Temür and El Temür. After the surrender of
Shangdu
Shangdu (; lit. "Upper Capital"; ), known in the West as Xanadu, was the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty under Kublai Khan. Located in what is now Zhenglan Banner, Inner Mongolia, it was designed by Chinese architect Liu Bingzhong and served as ...
forces, Tugh Temür abdicated in favour of his brother
Kusala (Emperor Mingzong) who was backed by Chagatai Khan
Eljigidey
Eljigidey was Khan of the Chagatai Khanate, a division of the Mongol Empire
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and announced Khanbaliq's intent to welcome him. However, Kusala suddenly died only four days after a banquet with Tugh Temür, supposedly killed with poison by El Temür, who purged pro-Kusala officials and brought power to warlords, whose despotic rule marked the decline of the Yuan dynasty.
His daughter,
Danashiri, married
Toghon Temür
Toghon Temür (; Mongolian script: ; ; 25 May 1320 – 23 May 1370), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Huizong of Yuan (; ), bestowed by the Northern Yuan, Northern Yuan dynasty, and by his posthumous name as t ...
(Emperor Huizong) and bore him a son but he died when he was a child. El Temür also had a son, Tanggici, who was also an officer.
El Temür became ill and died in 1333 and his children Danashiri and Tanggici were subsequently murdered by former co-conspirator
Bayan in 1335.
El Temür was the grandson of Yuan general Tutuha (
土土哈 1237–1297).
In popular culture
* Portrayed by
Jeon Gook-hwan in 2013–2014 MBC TV series ''
Empress Ki''.
Descendants of Qurusman
[Louis Hambis (1954). Le chapitre CVIII du Yuan che : les fiefs attribués aux membres de la famille impériale et aux ministres de la cour mongole d'après l'histoire chinoise officielle de la dynastie mongole. Monographies du Tʿoung pao, v. 3. Tableau15, généalogie des princes.]
* Qurusman（忽魯速蠻/hūlŭsùmán）
** Baltučaq（班都察/bāndōuchá）
*** （土土哈/Tŭtŭhā; توتقاق/Tūtqāq）
**** Taγačar（塔察兒/tǎcháér）
**** Tai buqa（太不花/Tàibùhuā）
**** （牀兀兒/Chuángwùér; جونكقور/Jūnkqūr）
***** Sevinču buqa（小雲失不花/Xiǎoyúnshī bùhuā）
***** Elči buqa（燕赤不花/yànchì bùhuā）
***** El temür（燕帖木兒/Yàntiēmùér）
****** （唐其勢/Tángqíshì）
****** Taraqai（塔剌海/Tǎlàhǎi）
******
Današiri（答納失里/Dānàshīlǐ）
***** （撒敦/Sādūn）
*****El tuqar（燕禿哈兒/Yàn tūhāér）
*****Dari（答里/Dálǐ）
*****Bübeqan（潑皮罕/Pōpíhǎn）
****Berke buqa（別里不花/Biélǐ bùhuā）
****Temür buqa（帖木兒不花/Tiēmùér bùhuā）
****Qarči（歓差/huānchā）
****Yoliγ temür（岳里帖木兒/Yuèlǐ tiēmùér）
****Dalgurban（断古魯班/Duàngŭlŭbān）
References
13th-century Kipchaks
Yuan dynasty right chancellors
1333 deaths
Year of birth unknown
14th-century Kipchaks
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